I hope you enjoyed today's Sweet Treats! Now brace yourselves, 'cuz this week you're going to see a whole lotta Halloween Wreckage. [rubbing hands together gleefully] Oh yeah, this is going to be good.

Oooooh, I want the first one and the one of Little Girl Boo! Quite ironic since I'm showing "Monster's Inc." (one of my all-time favorite movies, thank you very much) to my students on Friday as part of Halloween. (We stick to the cute parts of culture in this area!)

These are really all too cute and endearing to eat, but I think I could attempt a bite of the pumpkin on the first cake.

I can't wait to see the Hallowreckage. I've been browsing my local grocery stores for some scary cakes, but the bakers around here either know about this site or they're way too sane to produce any wrecks.

I wasn't surprised when I clicked the link and found out that the Burton-esque was by Christopher Garren...that guy and his whole staff are meticulous and very talented, at least by what we can see on Amazing Wedding Cakes.

It goes to show that a lot of what makes a cake a Sweet versus a Wreck is taking the time to plan and then more time to execute the detail work. Slap-jobs never look good!

This is a week late, but I wanted to congratulate you on making the NY Times Bestseller list, and getting a write up! It's inspiring to see that bringing joy and humor to the masses occasionally pays off.

THese are AWESOME!! I usually don't care about the Sunday Sweets, but the artistry is astounding, along with the cuteness. I agree with the earlier posting--makes me wish I were getting married on Halloween.

Can't WAIT for the wreckage!!! Hooray for Halloween cakes, both beautiful and wrecky! Lily

The first cake insists that the bottom of pumpkins are apparently cylindrical. And the second cake just cues in this disappointment factor I learned about when I was a child.

Whenever you have a craft form that looks like a person with something draped over it (like a dress or sheet) it's most usually a head (or whatever is visible) with no body under the drape mimicking a form.

I had to comment as I've been staring at that 1st cake for the last 2 weeks! I love pink cake box and used that design to show as inspiration to a client who wanted a Halloween themed birthday cake. I didn't think that she would request the actual cake! With a few additions this is what I made: http://cakesandbakesni.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/halloween-50th-birthday/

I was so surprised when Pink Cake box commented on my blog and was ok with my interpretation too!

BTW I'm just an amateur who bakes in her spare time...I could never claim to be in the same league as the (decent) professionals, although I believe cakewrecks give me hope that I'm actually better than many who call themselves professionals!!!

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